Homecoming 2?
Who's pumpkin is that?
Vivian how did you make that face?
I hate pools
Agoura Hills Edit
100

Mnemonics

memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices.

100

Flashbulb Memory

a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.

100

Recall

A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test.

100

Proactive interference

the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.


100

Episodic Memory

Explicit memories that have a time and a place.

200

Chunking

organizing items into familiar, manageable units in STM because space is limited to 7 bits. This increasing the efficiency of STM.

200

Amnesia

The loss of memory

200

Recognition

A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.

200

Retroactive Interference

The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.

200

Procedural Memory

Implicit memories (retrieved unconsciously) which involved motor skills; for example; riding a bike, typing, and tying a shoe.

300

Iconic memory

a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second.

300

Implicit Memory

retention independent of conscious recollection. (Also called non-declarative or procedural memory.)

300

Relearning

a measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time.

300

Repression

In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.

300

Curve of forgetting

Indicates LTM decay over time. Rapid decay occurs within the first 20 minutes and then memory decay slows down to 20-30% over 30 days.

400

Echoic memory

A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds.

400

Explicit Memory

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare." (Also called declarative memory.)

400

Priming

the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response.

400

Misinformation Effect

incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.

400

Elaborative Rehearsal

Connecting new information with memories already stored in LTM.

500

Long-term Potentiation (LTP)

an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.


500

Hippocampus

a neural center that is located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage.

500

Mood-congruent memory

the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.

500

Source Amnesia/Misattribution

attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. (Also called source misattribution.) Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.

500

Deep processing

Similar to elaboratiave rehearsal; connecting semantics of a new word to LTM which builds a strong memory trace that is resistant to memory decay.